“But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he rewards those that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6)

The OT and NT both are full of patterns for building faith.

Many will still say that there is no pattern or that any pattern is just a loose guide to be adjusted on the needs of the day.

But they really don’t mean that. They mean there is no pattern they desire to follow, and there is only a simile of a gospel plan of salvation which they have sanctioned as both movable and malleable. That there is not pattern of things that absolutely must be followed - whether for justification or for works of any kind. These typically follow after particular theories and doctrines of men and insist that there is nothing much needed to be done to become a Christian; and that are no “works” that must be accomplished in order to please God. They throw everything they define as works into the same basket — and accept nothing given in God’s book unless it happens to suit them.

Ashamed of Jesus at the National Day of Prayer

The 2008 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, Dr. Ravi Zacharias, is refusing to pray in the name of Jesus Christ in his prayer posted on the official NDP website. A receptionist with the National Day of Prayer in Colorado Springs stated that the Honorary Chairman’s prayer does not include the name of Jesus so as not to offend the Jewish participants in the event, and that others are free to pray in Jesus name if they desire… –excerpted from a Christian Newswire Media Advisory posted 4.24.08 and as submitted by Muriel McConnon.

In what we read in Hebrews 8 we have information that God demands that the church, the assemblies of this end of the ages, should also be built according to the instructions and out of the pattern that the Lord God Almighty has provided.

Lost

That is exactly where you are without God — lost. You are wandering without hope, utterly empty and completely useless – like a boat without either rudder or compass or a horse without a rider. Whether you know it or not, it will become clearer to you as you come near death – that without God, you will leave this life in fear, not knowing what lies ahead. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

The apostle said that the things recorded had been listed as examples. That was done so that the first people of God, their lives and conditions and their story might be of benefit. Israel’s bondage is given there as a type of the Corinthian’s (and therefore our own) bondage in sin. Moses the deliverer was then a type of Christ, who is the antitype by example.

On Sunday, March 23 the television show 60 Minutes a segment was aired concerning the “James the brother of Jesus” ossuary. Most scholars and experts have come to believe that the phrase “brother of Jesus” was forged on to the ossuary in an attempt to make this ossuary an important historical artifact. But the disturbing […]

I was certainly shocked and appalled when information about the kind of sermons being preached at the church Barrack Obama has been a member for nearly 20 years was revealed. Honestly, I am at a loss how any person who claims to be a Christian or claims to preach from the scriptures can teach against […]

Obama: Sermon on Mount OKs Same-Sex Unions

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him “less Christian.”

“I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,” said Obama. “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.” St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.

Jesus said that he was both God and the Son of God Almighty, the Creator. He did not claim to be a philosopher or simply a good guy. Those who say he was a ground breaking philosopher, but not God, as he claimed to be make him out a liar in their ignorance.

He is the only person who has ever made these claims and offered any evidence to back them up. The making of the claims gives you only two choices as to how to go: it either makes him a nut, unworthy of wasting any time on, or he is the Son of God as he claims to be. Christ (not a name, but a title) said, that in his name is life. The world did not, and does not believe that.